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Populist Revolt - A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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Populist Revolt - A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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Populist Revolt was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions. When The Populist
Revolt was originally published, the New York Times critic called
it "far and away the best account of populism that we have-and one
not likely to be replaced." That prophecy proved right; the book
has not been replaced, and historians and critics agree that it is
the definitive work on its subject. Now it is made available once
more, after being out of print for some time. This is a history of
the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, under whose banners a
great crusade for farm relief was waged in the 1880's and 1890's.
As important as the chronicle of the political movement itself is
the detailed picture which Professor Hicks gives of the conditions
which set the stage for this agrarian revolt. He describes the
inequities and malpractices which beset both the new settlers of
the West and the poverty-ridden whites and Negroes of the South
following the Civil War. The story of Populism itself is a lively
one, people with such picturesque leaders as "Pitchfork" Ben
Tillman of South Carolina, "Sockless" Jerry Simpson and Mary
Elizabeth Lease-the "Patrick Henry in petticoats"-of Kansas,
"Bloody Bridles" Waite of Colorado, Thomas E. Watson of Georgia,
Dr. C. W. Macune of Texas, James B. Weaver of Iowa, and Ignatius
Donnelly of Minnesota. In these pages, Professor Hicks has, as
Frederic L. Paxson pointed out, "presented the case for Populism
better than the Populists themselves could do it." Henry Steele
Commanger calls the book a "thorough, scholarly, sympathetic and
spirited history of the entire Populist movement."
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